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DOI | 10.1002/2016GL072242 |
Polar clouds and radiation in satellite observations, reanalyses, and climate models | |
Lenaerts, Jan T. M.1; 39;Ecuyer, Tristan S.2 | |
2017-04-16 | |
发表期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 44期号:7 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Netherlands; Belgium; USA |
英文摘要 | Clouds play a pivotal role in the surface energy budget of the polar regions. Here we use two largely independent data sets of cloud and surface downwelling radiation observations derived by satellite remote sensing (2007-2010) to evaluate simulated clouds and radiation over both polar ice sheets and oceans in state-of-the-art atmospheric reanalyses (ERA-Interim and Modern Era Retrospective-Analysis for Research and Applications-2) and the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) climate model ensemble. First, we show that, compared to Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System-Energy Balanced and Filled, CloudSat-CALIPSO better represents cloud liquid and ice water path over high latitudes, owing to its recent explicit determination of cloud phase that will be part of its new R05 release. The reanalyses and climate models disagree widely on the amount of cloud liquid and ice in the polar regions. Compared to the observations, we find significant but inconsistent biases in the model simulations of cloud liquid and ice water, as well as in the downwelling radiation components. The CMIP5 models display a wide range of cloud characteristics of the polar regions, especially with regard to cloud liquid water, limiting the representativeness of the multimodel mean. A few CMIP5 models (CNRM, GISS, GFDL, and IPSL_CM5b) clearly outperform the others, which enhances credibility in their projected future cloud and radiation changes over high latitudes. Given the rapid changes in polar regions and global feedbacks involved, future climate model developments should target improved representation of polar clouds. To that end, remote sensing observations are crucial, in spite of large remaining observational uncertainties, which is evidenced by the substantial differences between the two data sets. |
英文关键词 | clouds polar regions radiation satellite observations climate modeling reanalysis |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000400186500045 |
WOS关键词 | ANTARCTIC PENINSULA ; A-TRAIN ; IMPACT ; VALIDATION ; AEROSOLS ; PACIFIC ; FLUXES ; BUDGET ; PHASE |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/26291 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Utrecht, Inst Marine & Atmospher Res Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; 2.Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Leuven, Belgium; 3.Univ Colorado, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Boulder, CO 80309 USA; 4.VITO Remote Sensing, Mol, Belgium; 5.Delft Univ Technol, Dept Geosci & Remote Sensing, Delft, Netherlands; 6.Univ Wisconsin, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Madison, WI USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lenaerts, Jan T. M.,39;Ecuyer, Tristan S.. Polar clouds and radiation in satellite observations, reanalyses, and climate models[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2017,44(7). |
APA | Lenaerts, Jan T. M.,&39;Ecuyer, Tristan S..(2017).Polar clouds and radiation in satellite observations, reanalyses, and climate models.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,44(7). |
MLA | Lenaerts, Jan T. M.,et al."Polar clouds and radiation in satellite observations, reanalyses, and climate models".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 44.7(2017). |
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